Would
crowd-sourcing an algorithm be a better idea? If
a majority (even a large portion) of Facebook users agreed on the
rules and ratings, wouldn’t that be better than “double secret
probation?”
Facebook is
rating users based on their 'trustworthiness'
Facebook hasn't been shy about rating the
trustworthiness
of news outlets, but it's now applying that thinking to users as
well. The company's Tessa Lyons has revealed
to the Washington Post that it's starting to assign users
reputation scores on a zero-to-one scale. The system is meant to
help Facebook's fight
against fake news by flagging people who routinely make false
claims against news outlets, whether it's due to an ideological
disagreement or a personal grudge. This isn't the only way
Facebook gauges credibility, according to Lyons – it's just one of
thousands of behavior markers Facebook is using.
The problem: much
of how this works is a mystery. Facebook wouldn't say
exactly how it calculates scores, who gets these scores and how other
factors contributed to a person's trustworthiness. Lyons declined to
go in-depth on these factors, arguing that they might tip off "bad
actors" who could use this knowledge to game the system.
(Related) This is what happens when user
understanding does not match reality.
Google sued
for tracking you, even when 'location history' is off
Google now faces a potential class action lawsuit
over the revelation that it continues to store users' location data
even if they turn off Location History.
The lawsuit was filed on Friday, the day Google
updated
its help page to clarify that with Location History off it still
stores some location data in other services such as Google Search and
Maps.
Was
management aware of this?
Verizon
Throttled Fire Department's 'Unlimited' Plan While They Were Fighting
Mendocino Complex Fire
Verizon throttled the Santa Clara County Fire
Department’s supposedly “unlimited” data plan while the agency
was fighting the record wildfires that have burned over one
million acres of the state, Ars
Technica reported on Tuesday.
According to the report, Santa Clara County Fire
Chief Anthony Bowden brought up the throttling in an addendum
to a multi-state legal
brief seeking the overturn of the Republican-controlled Federal
Communications Commission’s decision
to throw out Barack Obama-era net neutrality rules. Bowden
alleged that Verizon had throttled a SIM card connecting a fire
department mobile command vehicle named “OES 5262” to 1/200th of
its normal speed, putting lives and property at risk, and that the
company’s support team refused to lift the restrictions until fire
officials purchased a new data plan at “more than twice the cost.”
Actually, they could. Removing or altering
candidate names to confuse voters. More subtle: Randomly changing
the location of the box voters fill in so the automated counting
system can’t find it. Would it be detected in time to correct
the changes?
New bill
would require paper ballots to secure election results
CNET
– The
bill, submitted by nine senators on Tuesday, would also mandate
election audits. “The
Russians can’t hack paper. On Tuesday, twelve Senators
introduced a bill [ [The
Protecting American Votes and Elections Act] that would require
state and local governments to use paper ballots in an effort to
secure elections from hackers. The bill would also require rigorous
audits for all federal elections to ensure that results match the
votes. “Leaving the fate of America’s democracy up to hackable
election machines is like leaving your front door open, unlocked and
putting up a sign that says ‘out of town,'” Sen. Ron Wyden, a
Democrat from Oregon, said in a release.
“Any failure to secure our elections amounts to disenfranchising
American voters.” The Protecting American Votes and Elections Act
of 2018 was drafted amid intense scrutiny of voting systems ahead of
the mid-term elections in November. Russian interference in the 2016
presidential election has elevated concern over the security of the
country’s voting systems. The senators said rigorous audits will
ensure votes are legitimate. Currently, 22 states don’t require
post-election audits, according to the release…”
From Facebook…
Taking Down
More Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior
Today we removed multiple Pages, groups and
accounts for coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook and
Instagram. Some of this activity originated in Iran, and some
originated in Russia. These were distinct campaigns and we have not
identified any link or coordination between them. However, they used
similar tactics by creating networks of accounts to mislead others
about who they were and what they were doing.
We ban this kind of behavior because we want
people to be able to trust the connections they make on Facebook.
(Related)
Working with our industry peers today, we have
suspended 284 accounts from Twitter for engaging in coordinated
manipulation. Based on our existing analysis, it appears many of
these accounts originated from Iran.
5:01 PM - 21 Aug 2018
Why?
Tinder is
rolling out a college-only service, Tinder U
Tinder officially
announced today that it’s launching a service called Tinder U,
a version of Tinder that’s only available to college students. To
log in to the feature for the first time, users must have a .edu
email address and be geolocated on campus. The functionality is
exactly the same as regular Tinder, although the UI looks slightly
different: a badge depicting users’ universities will be displayed
on their main profile image.
The service will be rolling
out to iOS devices at four-year, accredited, not-for-profit schools
in the US, Tinder says.
… Colloquially, I’ve heard students already
regularly use the app to meet people, so segmenting them off and
making it more centrally focused on their campus life makes sense.
Tinder’s marketing frames the service as ideal for finding a study
buddy or someone to hang out with on the quad. Also, if Tinder can
build in a new dedicated user base of 18-year-olds, it can also start
converting them to paid users sooner.
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